---
type: "Bill"
title: "Employment: contracts in restraint of trade."
description: "Existing law declares every contract by which anyone is restrained from engaging in a lawful profession, trade, or business of any kind to be void, except as expressly provided. Existing law provides for a system of labor standards enforcement administered by the Labor Commissioner."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20252026"
identifier: "AB 692"
citation: "California AB 692 (20252026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Employment", "contractsinrestraintoftrade"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kalra"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 34
vote_count: 10
first_action: "2025-02-14"
last_action: "2025-10-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2115fef9-4876-47d8-b4e4-90a830a65ca1"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB692"
source_hash: "f2ee5761c7262a4c62ec6eda6d0ca3cbaa618d4d91ba3284d1869f64462af879"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California AB 692 (20252026) — Employment: contracts in restraint of trade.

Existing law declares every contract by which anyone is restrained from engaging in a lawful profession, trade, or business of any kind to be void, except as expressly provided. Existing law provides for a system of labor standards enforcement administered by the Labor Commissioner.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **02/14/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB692&version=20250AB69299INT)
2. **03/10/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB692&version=20250AB69298AMD)
3. **05/23/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB692&version=20250AB69297AMD)
4. **05/29/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB692&version=20250AB69296AMD)
5. **06/26/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB692&version=20250AB69295AMD)
6. **07/17/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB692&version=20250AB69294AMD)
7. **08/29/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB692&version=20250AB69293AMD)
8. **09/05/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB692&version=20250AB69292AMD)
9. **10/13/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB692&version=20250AB69290CHP)
10. **AB692** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB692)
11. **09/15/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB692&version=20250AB69291ENR)

## Votes

- AB 692 Kalra Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **46–20** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB692 Kalra et al. By Pérez — **25–11** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Judiciary] — **4–1** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **11–2** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended — **5–2** (pass) · upper
- AB 692 Kalra Assembly Third Reading — **47–21** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **7–3** (pass) · lower
- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — **5–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **10–3** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Kalra — primary (person)
- Cortese — coauthor (person)
- Lee — coauthor (person)
- Pérez — coauthor (person)
- Rogers — coauthor (person)
- Sharp-Collins — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2025-02-14** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2025-02-15** From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
- **2025-03-10** Referred to Coms. on L. & E. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-10** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. & E. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-03-11** Re-referred to Com. on L. & E. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-27** Coauthors revised.
- **2025-04-03** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (April 2). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-22** Coauthors revised.
- **2025-04-22** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 3.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-07** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-23** Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 51. Noes 16. Page 1644.)
- **2025-05-23** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 10. Noes 3.) (May 23). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2025-05-23** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-05-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-05-29** Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 1788.) `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-06-05** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 47. Noes 21. Page 2112.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-06-09** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2025-06-18** Referred to Coms. on L., P.E. & R. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-25** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) (June 25). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-06-26** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-07-16** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 2.) (July 15). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-07-17** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-08-18** In committee: Referred to suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2025-08-29** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 29). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2025-08-29** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-09-02** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-09-05** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-09-08** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-09-10** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 25. Noes 11. Page 2815.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-09-10** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2025-09-11** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 46. Noes 20. Page 3340.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-09-23** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2025-10-13** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2025-10-13** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 703, Statutes of 2025. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2115fef9-4876-47d8-b4e4-90a830a65ca1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).